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Joe Russell Assistant Dean of Students University of Vermont

Flow and outcomes

• Intro and overview of the Care Team
• Tools and our practice
• Trends on campus
• What’s on the horizon?
• Questions

The CARE Team

• Purpose:
• To identify “students of concern” (directly or by receiving reports

from students/staff/faculty)

• To assist students who are identified as “students of concern” or “at

risk.”

• Guiding Principles
• Student privacy/rights
• Student success
• Health and safety of individual and community

The CARE Team

• Who’s on the team?
• Vice Provost & Dean of Students Office
• College of Arts & Sciences (representing all academic units)
• Counseling & Psychiatry Services (CAPS)
• Student Health Services
• Student Accessibility Services
• Residential Life
• UVM Police Services
• Center for Student Conduct

The CARE Team

• Consult with one another about appropriate strategies for assisting students
• f concern and supporting the UVM community.
• Agree upon a plan of action so that various university personnel are taking a

consistent approach to assisting a student.

• Identify a “point” person(s) who will coordinate the assistance that a

particular student of concern receives.

• Determine who needs to have information about particular students of

concern so that the optimal balance between offering assistance and maintaining privacy of a student is achieved.

• Make strategic recommendations based on campus-wide and national

mental health and behavioral trends and best institutional practices.

The CARE Form

The CARE Form

Review and Assess Communicate (Update and/or Direct) Intervention Communicate (Update and/or seek Direction)

Helpful Tools/Practices

• Care Form
• Maxient (Database)
• Notification and Routing of info
• Notes, documents, info sharing
• Case assignment, pings, pokes, and data
• Care Road Show
• Info File Folders
• Developing a community of Care

A Community of Care

http://go.uvm.edu/stepup http://go.uvm.edu/biasresponse http://go.uvm.edu/care

What we’re seeing

Total Number of Cases

What’s on the Horizon?

• Helping students know about ALL the resources
• Expanding our referral options
• Community-wide campaign – Community of Care? CatsCare?
• Alignment of resources/efforts
• Simplifying how students can access support

(Website/Portals)

• Number of cases overwhelming current infrastructure
• Expectations (from parents/students) of level of support

Questions?